The Rise of Bat Boy

A cool podcast from Skeptic magazine on Batboy and the Weekly World News. In the pantheon of American monsters, only one truly dominated the newspapers of the 1990s. Checkout lines everywhere were haunted by the bald-headed, wide-mawed visage of Bat Boy. What was Bat Boy, and where did he come from? The MonsterTalk team interviews […]

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FDA kicks 8 companies touting “miracle cures”

Good for them. Repeat after me: Autism isn’t mercury poisoning. Regulators said the products, sold over the Internet, can cause dehydration, kidney failure and death. Known as chelation therapies, the products have been used for decades, although medical societies and government experts say there is no evidence they cure diseases. The only FDA-approved chelation therapies […]

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America’s True History of Religious Tolerance

Interesting concept. Look at actual American histotry to figure out where the concept of a “Christian Nation” came from. From the earliest arrival of Europeans on America’s shores, religion has often been a cudgel, used to discriminate, suppress and even kill the foreign, the “heretic” and the “unbeliever”–including the “heathen” natives already here. Moreover, while […]

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